Navajo Necklace Angel Skin Coral Teardrop Turquoise Pendant Liquid Silver 18\" For Sale

This beautifully crafted Navajo necklace has a teardrop turquoise stone surrounded with angel skin coral stones. The pendant is on a silver necklace composed of 20 strands of liquid silver. The necklace is 18\" long. The pendant is 1 7/8\" (including the loop at the top) tall by 1\". The pendant is marked sterling. The pendant slides off the liquid silver easily so that it can also be worn with other pendants. The necklace weighs 27 grams or 1 ounce. This necklace is in excellent condition.

Throughout the 40 years that I have been in business, I have purchased jewelry from pawn shops throughout the Southwest that had collections of dead pawn. Most of these pawn shops and trading posts are now closed. The Native American would pawn his jewelry for immediate cash. The shop would hold it and charge interest until he could reclaim it. Dead pawn are the pieces that were never retrieved. Old Pawn Jewelry typically dates from the early 1900s to the 1970s. Most of the early pieces are not signed because it wasn\'t the Native American tradition to sign the pieces they crafted. Also, the turquoise in old pawn is turquoise that you can\'t get anymore because many of the mines have closed. And, the red and orange coral is rare because of the coral bleaching which is happening today.